[Seaside-dev] GRCountingStream

[Philippe Marschall]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Johan Brichau <johan at inceptive.be> wrote:
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> On 16 Feb 2014, at 22:50, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If it works with Zinc on Pharo why wouldn't it work with Zinc on Gemstone?
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> In general, I think the streaming responses have an issue with the transactional approach taken for each request in GLASS.
> Each request in GLASS is a transaction that is aborted and retried on commit failure. An abort/retry in the presence of a streaming response does not happen transparently
> It can work (I think) but not without some additional developer 'attention'.
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> We are not using the streaming responses, but I might take a look at them in the future and see if we can add support from within the framework to deal with them in GLASS.
> Though, for now, they probably can achieve strange results.

Good points.

Cheers
Philippe